skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, you were the one who started off on a high horse. Don't be surprised if people come back in kind.

Now what you're now admitting is that your real prior isn't 50/50 or anything close. You're starting from the assumption that it is incredibly unlikely that women can make much of a difference, and therefore you really do require extraordinary evidence before you'll even consider the possibility that hiring women could help. In short your mind is so made up that your actual prior can fairly be described as fact resistant.

But is that a reasonable theory to have? Independent estimates are that women make an estimated 85% of all consumer purchases. If having women at the top of your company helps you figure out how to talk to that group, there is a clear potential connection between success and having women involved.

You don't like where this is leading? Well try something a little less biased on for size. If the vast majority of startups do not have women at a high level, but ability is equally divided between women and men, does that mean that startups with women involved early likely have an advantage getting better people?

I'm seeing lots of reasons to see that it could be plausible that having women involved early is beneficial for your startup. (Not necessarily true, only reasonably plausible.) My advice to you is therefore to not be so fast in setting preconceptions that let you reject data out of hand, sight unseen.
Usability of that announcement homepage is simply horrible.
Ive been using the iPad App mostly as the website has been such a poor experience in comparison. I hope the new website goes someway to bridge the gap.
Ebay isn't ignoring innovations in eccomerce. I'd point you to their x.com (xcommerce) platform - it's pretty impressive what they're doing.
check out: https://www.x.com/products
This happens to me all the time. Every version of the emulator from the time I started with android in 2009 to present.

I NEVER leave it running on my machine when I retire for the night. Once or twice I woke up in the morning to see it somehow gobbling 100% of the CPU while idling, and the machine seemed close to overheating.
user distraction. too much graphics makes it boring.
So then why the hell did you say Pathogen was better than Vundle? Vundle is Pathogen + crack.

People should think about what they say.
How about debian/testing? Personally I run unstable and have never had any issue that I could not deal with.
How can these sorts of problems be posed to a wider audience?

Is NASA and SpaceX's work so narrowly defined that the community could not help in other ways?

How great would that be? Get great industry minds involved in government work furthering the space program and encouraging open source spirit all the while?
People like that have lawyers on retainer. And if those same lawyers did their job when the options contracts were written, the lawsuits won't amount to anything.

This is a pretty common story. Probably more common than when the options pay anything. I once worked for a company that acquired another company. We were bigger, our CEO set up the deal, their CEO got paid, etc. But officially it was a "merger of equals". Why? Because if we'd bought them their options would have vested immediately and we would have had to buy up all the stock the employees held.

The way it was worked my company traded their options for options in the new company. Two years later everyone who had worked for the company we acquired was out of a job, and they had to decide whether or not to exercise their options in a company that wasn't publicly traded (which is madness, BTW - never, ever do that). I would have bought one of those mirrors on a stick and checked under my car every day if I'd been the CEO. But eventually he cashed out for a cool $15m.
Open Source ♥ TV
Welcome to the Internet's first attempt to provide a sustainable model of educational online television by open sourcing its networks to the entire world. Open Source ♥ TV acts as a gateway to connect you with passionate, compassionate, and dynamic community based productions around the world who provide free artistic portrayals of the topics that they feel most important in life. Open Source ♥ TV is currently scouting for directors with show ideas. If you think that you have what it takes to change the world, we want to speak with you. When entertainment is performed out of love and compassion for our fellow human beings, its endless possibilities manifest itself. Open Source ♥ TV does not want your money but instead your heart. Welcome to healthy forms of entertainment. Enjoy the enlightenment...
What I don't understand is why everyone here in The Bay Area seems to overlook the Nook, or really anything competing with the most well known tech brands.

Competition is great and the Nook is fairly competitive with the Kindle. I went with the nook at the time simply because it was superior to the kindle (it had the touch screen first).

For some reason this guy compares it to an iPad but doesn't even mention the Nook.
Oh, my, god.

I wish there were flattr for HN (which I had to think about to remember the name of to then mention it).
Based on reading the article (and no legal knowledge whatsoever), it would appear to depend entirely on who was doing it and why. If libraries were doing it so they could automatically subtitle the work and make it available to deaf viewers, then probably so. If you are doing it so you can hawk DVD versions on street corners for a buck apiece, likely not.
Yep, you get to the bottom and then? where is the so called call for action? or scroll to top? I was looking for a button to "let me in" and finally found a small "U.S. customers try it here!" link which I could hardly notice.

unless this is on purpose (to lower the amount of users somehow to let the system avoid a spike or something) then I really don't get it.

and after you go in, it's a pinterest wall.
Open Source University
Welcome to the Internet's first attempt to provide a sustainable model of education by open sourcing it to the entire world. Open Source University acts as a gateway to connect you with passionate, compassionate, and dynamic teachers around the world who provide free online education because they care about the subjects and people they deal with.

Open Source University is currently recruiting. If you think that you have what it takes to change the world, we want to speak with you. When teaching is performed out of love and compassion for our fellow human beings, the coin of education is flipped and its endless possibilities manifest itself.

Open Source University does not want your money but instead your heart. Welcome to healthy forms of education. Enjoy the peaceful revolution.
Browserver: A web server inside your web browser
Interesting concept! I understand it is a research prototype, but wonder how it could be shaped into a product. I doubt wouldn't want to walk around wearing something that large on my wrists. Maybe if they could make it smaller...

Why does their IR camera (which seems to take up most space) have such a huge surface?
Very interesting post.

Now that we're talking about growth hacking...

Funny thing is the first thing I thought after finishing it was my recollection of their previous landing page where they practically forced me not to give out my email address and how that decision would have impacted the activation rate via proper retention drip email campaign.

To me it felt like they were ignoring a low hanging fruit in their post-registration activation funnel.

Of course it was only after I checked up on their landing page again that I realized they had indeed changed their UX pattern from the previous lazy reg / "instant candy" (ie. letting people just have the URL to share right from the frontpage w/o getting them to sign-up [1]) to the "standard" approach of requiring a sign-up before any gratification.

Not only that by they had also gone quite aggressive with their approach by showing a 0 sec delay dialog box demanding a registration via FB / Twitter.

Would be very interesting to hear how these changes have reflected in their lp conversion rates. Would be especially cool to hear how the controversial pop up is performing for them. It's a ballsy move. Gotta like that. :)

[1] http://refer.ly/blog/referly-homepage-simplification-retrosp...
Ironically, the reason they bought Paypal was because it was originally a competitive advantage for them :).

Funny how a decade can change things.
Where do you think that code for mission-critical servers gets developed?

There's a pretty scary amount of iffy public code that ends up on mission-critical servers. I could outline some chains of connection, but briefly: it's very easy for someone's cheesy little website to become a significant player in another organization's processing.

That "website" you're going to likely runs not only on multiple servers, but in multiple datacenters across multiple organizational borders: core site, sales, support, order fulfillment, marketing analytics, web analytics, email, messaging, social integration ....

The best way not to get into bad habits on your production, mission-critical systems is to not allow them anywhere else.

Granted, this is a Vim suite, but I'm seeing similar brain death in far too many corners.
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That is not passive at all. You have to change the res every two weeks, plus be on the look out for any signs of stress (bugs, nutrients, and environment).

Then you have to process it, which a pound can be trimmed by a professional in about 10 hours. BTW you need to supervise them or do it yourself.

Then you get the hassle of dealing with the clubs consignment drama... Not to mention the stress of worrying about being robbed throughout the whole cycle.
I make lower 5 digits per year from http://docrobot.co.uk.

It's effectively an online desktop publishing system aimed at making it easy for HR teams to deliver TRS (Total Reward Statements) in 10% of the time, at 10% of the cost, and with fewer errors.

It took a couple years to write, so I wouldn't say it was an easy investment, but it was fun to write. These days it ticks over and I don't spend much time on it at all.

Perhaps I should work on advertising more...

-Ken
True. Just wait, it will happen eventually. But until then, sadly, decent income producing investments (bonds and the like) are not easy to find.
http://learncodethehardway.org/

For websites: http://www.w3schools.com/

Use these to create things, then seek feedback.
As a feminist management theorist and geek, study conclusions like this always frustrate me. Obviously, the study sheds little light on the actual cause of the correlation, but my guess based on my personal experiences with leadership strategy is this:

The choice to hire diversely is symptomatic of certain types of thinking:
1) Open / wide / flexible thinking. Someone who hires diversely is more likely to find it easier to conceptualize worldviews farther from their own as still relevant.
2) Civic responsiblity / empathy. A desire to be a part of the solution to gender imbalance rather than a part of the imbalance.
3) Long term thinking. Having people who are more different from you on the team is a more effective solution in the long run, because you're likely to cover more bases.

This means that leaders who make the choice to hire diversely are more likely to also be leaders who plan slightly further ahead, are more dextrous in the different ways they could see problems, and able to focus on non-top-down perspectives on the business, such as what the customer might be thinking. (All of this is correlative of course, not a->b.) As a result, leaders who hire diversely are more likely to be already be leaders who are better at running a successful company.

Ie, diversity is a litmus, not a direct cause.

I would be very, very surprised to find if, someday when women run 50% of companies and are in workforce balance, companies with women executives are still more likely to be successful.

EDIT: I do, however, think there is also an edge to leadership that can sometimes come simply from being in a minority, whatever the minority is. Not because there's anything wrong with white men, but simply because there's a unique perspective on problems and indirect causality that you get from being at a cultural disadvantage that, if you manage not to get weighed down by it, ends up being pretty useful in business.
Is it just me, or are the recent visual overhauls of EBay, Microsoft, and Google remarkably similar?

- The logos all have red, blue, yellow, green (that was
true before, but the shades they use seem more
similar now)
- flat styling with minimal drop shadows
- using lots of white background and light grey lines/panels
- more hard square corners than rounded
- san serif fonts (very similar if not identical)
- hovering over links underlines
- full width backgrounds

I'm not a designer, but it just seems like a very common visual vocabulary. I wonder why the brands wouldn't try to differentiate themselves more? It has some similarities to Apple's aesthetic but less "sleek" with the multi-colors.

They're going for "clean" but to me it's starting to look a little bland.
I use this! Great work!
Nothing crazy, RAID-6 on CentOS running mdadm

Here's a pic: http://www.piqd.com/tarbackup_server.png

You can check out more info and see other pics of the hardware here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/zt1md/hey_linux_im_ma...
I was going to comment on reitz' original statement because something was off in the way it was put.

I didn't because every time I went over it and sliced it, there was too much scope to misunderstand what was said.

But there were 2 aspects that I knew were triggers -

1) His underlying assumption that the employees were there for playing the "startup lottery". Firstly this ascribes knowledge of the mind set of the emps. Secondly this ignores the fact that Zynga also was a "safer" firm given its history and at the time, certain prospects.

The employees for that firm which are hurting today aren't necessarily the same as your first batch or second batch hires in an untested startup.

(this is why I didn't comment - there are many ways to slice and dice this further, and suffer from badly drawn edges and subsets)

2) His description of it as startup lottery. The underlying philosophy here on HN, and in most places which discuss startups is strongly merit oriented.
His statement carried the implication that all the discussions so far were eye wash - it was a lottery and people lost, bad luck.

His later clarifications were pretty crucial to explain his context, but I can completely see where he ticked people off.
It's fun to speculate about this (heck, I may even found a religion around it) but there's no way to prove that one is in a simulation.

It's possible that the creators of the simulation do not wish to let the cat out of the bag. Any test which aims to probe the limits of the simulation can, itself, be simulated at higher accuracy with only a slight loss of real-time speed. In fact, it's highly likely that different parts of the universe are simulated with varying amounts of precision.

Heck, even if the simulators goofed, they can always fix the simulation, rewind the universe back to a prior checkpoint, and begin anew.
Surprise: it looks like Pinterest. Yawn...
It's called fashion. You know, what everyone does to differentiate themselves from the herd.
Is everyone getting the same suggestions? These look either barely-safe-for-work or dorky, or both. A Pinterest for nerds?

http://imgur.com/qJQj5

No connection to my purchase history that I can see... o_O
Yes, the original one. No, HTC Legends are still around, those are the real low ends, also in terms of display resolution.
Maybe female executives tend to choose to work in start-ups that are more likely to succeed. At least that's somewhat implied by the content of the generally sexist blog post at WSJ.

So the question is really: what kinds of startups have appeal to women?
I agree. Chrome does well with just three channels: Dev, Beta, and Release (ignoring the Canary channel as a special case of Dev).

I support shortening the release cycle (to maybe 4 weeks) and increasing the number of Beta users. Having two channels (Aurora and Beta) between dev and release is useful because it widens the user population as the release stabilizes. As you point out, some bugs can only be found by increasing the test population, rather than the test time. Early adopters that install Aurora or Beta are not representative of the "Joe User" population, who probably suffer from malware, anti-virus software, and older hardware.

(posted from Firefox Nightly 19.0a1 :)
Ok I retract my claim. It's not as powerful as the 360, but I still find its graphics very impressive.
Don't panic. I have exactly the same products.
It's some kind of poetic justice that Zynga before the IPO was compared to game makers that have historically produced kickass games, like Blizzard.
Linux Foundation UEFI Secure Boot System for Open Source
A "chemspill" is Mozilla-speak for a x.0.1 dot release to fix a critical bug, such as a security bug or a serious crash.
Except that Nokia marketed everything and made massive profits
Rich Dad - bankrupt Dad - Robert Kiyosaki bankrupt
Do you know this for a fact? That'd be quite impressive if the Lispers maintained strong against Google's policies.. I remember reading that they ported over
While what you describe is certainly the ideal, and likely applicable in a variety of situations, there are a lot of real world situations where it can't cut it. Antirez says it best:

remember all those stories about DB denormalisation, and hordes of memcached or Redis farms to cache stuff, and things like that? The reality is that fancy queries are an awesome SQL capability (so incredible that it was hard for all us to escape this warm and comfortable paradigm), but not at scale.

You'll be hard pressed to find any medium-sized project in the wild that doesn't require a layer of denormalization or caching to be reasonably responsive (I mean, some frameworks come with that built-in - their users might not even be aware this is happening). You might have some beautifully crafted model underlying that layer, but don't fool yourself into thinking that's all there is.
Anyone worth their salt could've Googled their leaderships history of creating big IPOs that end up crushing and burning. Most were complicit in it, or just rationalized it to themselves that it was different.

Second, the people who make the company - the early people - are on better terms. The guy who got hired the month before IPO shouldn't be expecting much.
Sexy nurses, adorable baby Halloween costumes (http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2012-Noahs-Ark-collection-Pinky-...) and handbags.
Wait, wait, wait. Surely this isn't what I should see: http://i.imgur.com/kdKBT.png

I mean, those legs look interesting but I'm guessing that's not what ebay's going for.

edit: wow, I was dropped into the middle (basically right at the end) of the page. I didn't realize that... Is Chrome acting incorrectly? It goes to the top of the page without the '#' at the end. Also, those orange bag jpeg artifacts are not good. I would absolutely shudder to see what that looks like on a Retina display.

I actually quite enjoy it otherwise, but it really has to start at the top. (Surely I'm not the only one this happened to, it happens every time for me)
I download oh-my-zsh(or the fork Prezto), pick a theme, tweak 1-3 settings, load my custom PATH, and I'm in excellent shape. I have a shell that works great with little work.
Source code viewable in a web browser here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/efitools.git;...

Some discussion on lwn.net here: http://lwn.net/Articles/519244/

It seems very similar to the SuSE solution, except that it uses the UEFI key store rather than its own separate key store. The main downside is that if you want a key for loader.efi added (so you don't have to say "yes, I really want to run this" each time you boot), you have to put UEFI into setup mode and the interface for doing so depends on the motherboard. So SuSE's is nicer from a UI standpoint but it puts keys in two locations, while this one is uglier from a UI standpoint but it keeps all keys within a single UEFI store.
Yea I've got the exact same suggestions.
About lending... it makes no sense in digital world. Copying is another thing, however.
The article does seem particularly biased to me. Sort of ironic.
It's not a comparison of mobile usage but of all usage, so the other 61% are just pc's
The bigger the government influence/regulation/power/money the higher the stakes and more well funded stakeholders trying to influence it.
Here is the new Interface Link - http://www.ebay.com/feed

Today, its the Interface that sells.
My mom and sister love Pinterest the most in the web.
I consider that - web is all about giving greater user experience for super easy discovery!

eBay has done a nice design change, and the Pinterest like Interface sells well for shopping sites.

The change is happening fast, users consume lot of content from tablets, mobile devices so Pinterest, Wookmark and masonary like plugins create beautiful grids and layouts for easy discovery.

But eBay should work more on their recommendation algorithms. It keeps showing me Tablets, even after I bought a tablet recently in eBay. It should stop showing me Tablets again. May be it should show Tablet accessories - Screen-guards, pouches and Connectors? I may be interested in buying them.

Also an option to personalize the shopping experience by showing Items from WishLists and Research-Lists is also missing.
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You start out with:

> That's a very serious accusation

(Which I don't agree with, the way it was written) And then you go on to accuse the same website of something else:

> blatant Apple fanboyism

Seriously? - And how is this related to the OP? And from the review you've linked to:

> The new nano might have Apple’s connector of the future, but everything else about it clings tightly to the past — to a world in which iTunes is still the center of the digital media universe, not a bloated relic badly in need of a fresh start and new ideas.

This is so fanboyish that it's worth the side snark?
SMO Fitzgerald Global: Self Reliance in Retirement.
My top three:

1) Give me back my physical pageturn buttons that I can tap without moving my fingers! Why, Amazon, why?

2) Make the LED whiter, maybe even yellower, instead of bluish. I'm not a color expert, I just know that this color looks wrong.

3) I'm not sure what's up with the font, but pick a font that doesn't look fragile, like some parts of thinner connectors are half-not-there.
>I don't know that this is the answer but San Francisco seems to be committed to offering lower income earners more affordable housing through rent control.

Nah. Just like other cities with rent control actually finding a place is pretty much impossible. Demand for housing stock in the city has far outstripped supply, and people who get a controlled place don't leave.

The baristas and such commute into the city from cheaper areas in the east bay.
Yes, iespecially like the graph of human prosperity plotted against rises of religions, empires, plagues etc.

I would check his methodology carefully (he glosses over a lot) but the overall thrust is compelling
When your project manager shows you a Top 25 game from the AppStore and tells you to Zynga-ify (blatantly copy it), you should know you're dealing with scum of the earth.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612022
Its so jarring to see eBay alternate between capital b and lowercase for no obvious reason. Anyone have a good explanation?
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I have seen it from Charles Handy and others as well. It is all about the idea that currently the vast wealth of society is generated unevenly, so some form of redistribution is needed - a job for everyone is the current approach. But when those jobs get replaced how do we redistribute?

It's going to be a rough century